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No. 526,469. Patented Sept. 25-, 1894.

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WITNESSES INVENTOR toto cards.

. UNITED. STATES PA ENT Face.

- CHARLES A, L. TOTTEN, or MILFORD, CONNECTICUT.

APPARATUS FOR PLAYING GAMES.

.SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 526,469, datedSeptember 25, 1894. l Application filed July 2,1894. $erial No. 516,391.(No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. L. TOTTEN, of Milford, in the county ofNew'Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Apparatus forPlaying Games; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and letters of referencemarked thereon, who a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute a part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a single toto card, it being constructed on the basis of thecalendar of February, A. D. 1895, and showing the Serial Nos. 1 to 28pertaining to the days of that month, and 32 to 59 in the same spacesshowin g the serial numbers pertaining to the days of that year. Figs.2,3, 4:, 5, 6 and 7 show some of the counters numbered to correspond tothe days enumerated in the spaces of the Fig. 8 shows one of the markersfor covering the spaces on the toto cards. Fig. 9 shows the mortisedpackage containing the entire outfit, the calendar card for February,1895, being exposed through the mortise. Fig. 10 gives a view of thesame raised for convenience by a prop to facilitate reading thecalender. Fig. 11, shows the mortised package Without its contents, thetoto cards, &c., having been removed.

My invention is an improvement in game apparatus for playing toto. Itsobject is to impart to the players a practical instruction in theprinciples of the calendar, and tofamiliarize them with its dates andanniversaries. To accomplish this, I employa set of toto or calendarcards, serially numbered to correspond with the days of the week, monthand year and have my set of counters numbered in a series so as tocorrespond to them, and a set of markers to cover the toto spaces whencalled off. I furthermore inclose the entire outfit in a package somortised as to expose the calendar cards to view at all times, wherebywhen not actually employed in playing toto their consultation as acalendar for ordinary chronological purposes is facilitated. Thismortised package also serves as a pool box to hold the counters whenplaying the game.

. The simplest form of my toto apparatus is a set of twelve toto cardscorresponding severally to the twelve months of the year with theirseveral spaces, respectively numbered serially throughout the set, from1 to 365 or 366 as the case may be, for a common, or leap year,respectively, and with additional numbers running from 1 to 28, 29, 30,or 31 upon the spaces of the individual toto or calendar cards,according to the demands of the months under consideration. With these Isupply a corresponding set of counters, numbered from 1 to 365 or 366and a set of markers for covering the numbers on the cards. These threeparts of the outfit I inclose in a mortised package, so as to expose thecalendar to view.

In some cases I shall make the calendars as complete as possible, as toalmanac data, chronological events, signs and symbols, and in others Ishall limit myself to a mere skeleton of the dates, my object beingpractically to improve game apparatus as such and to make its use aninstructive pastime upon calendrical principles, and it is in thegeneral application of the calendar as such, to this specific object,and its mortised package in relation to or combination with. the otherparts of the game apparatus, as an article of manufacture, that myimprovement chiefly obtains. The main idea therefore that governs myinvention is a game apparatus, somewhat similar to loto wherein thecombination of the twelve calendar cards, their corresponding countersand markers and the mortised package are the essentials.

The rules accompanying the game I have already duly copyrighted, and ofcourse they form no part of this specification, but to enable any oneskilled in the art to use the toto outfit, I will give the elementaryoutline of usingit for playing the game of toto. Shuflle the toto cardsand deal them to the players who arrange them face up. Mix the countersin the mortised package, draw them indiscriminately, calling off theirnumbers, the players covering them if found upon their respective totocards with the markers which they take from the pile in the center ofthe table, special scores, and points being claimed for specialanniversaries, sequences of weeks, personal birthdays, phases of themoon, &c.

The object of the game is first, to fill a calen or toto card, andsecond to get a sum of the scores or a toto equal to three hundred Itand sixty-five.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' As a special article of manufacture the sequence of twelve loto cards(with their spaces severally numbered from 1 to 28, 29, 30 or 31respectively, and from 1 to 365 or 366 throughout the .set) the threehundred and sixty-five or three hundred and sixty-six counters, and thethree hundred and sixtyfive or three hundred and sixty-six markers andthe mortised package as above described. In testimony whereof I havesigned this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

C. A. L. TOTTEN. Witnesses:

E. O. DORMAN, F. K. PALMER.

